Opera's Second Death

Contents

• Introduction: For the Love of the Opera
• 1. Philosophy in the Opera Mladen Dolar
• 1. 1 The Birth of Opera from the Spirit of Absolutism
• 1. 2 Acheronta movebo
• 1. 3 The Logic of Mercy
• 1. 4 Opera buffa
• 1. 5 Syntax
• 1. 6 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
• 1. 7 Figaro
• 1. 8 Don Giovanni
• 1. 9 The Opera in Philosophy: Mozart and Kierkegaard
• 1. 10 La femme-machine
• 1. 11 Machine in Love
• 1. 12 A Philosopher in the Opera
• 1. 13 Machine and Enjoyment
• 1. 14 The Rationalistic Myth of the Enlightenment
• 1. 15 He is a Man - Even More, He is a Prince
• 1. 16 Three Continuations
• 2. I Do Not Order My Dreams Slavoj Zizek
• 2. 1 Death Drive and the Wagnerian Sublime - The Forced Choice - The Disavowal Deeper than the day could read The 'What-Ifs' - Tristan's Journey to the Bottom of the Night - Transgression? No, thanks! - Wagner's Sexualized Politics - The Moebius Band
• 2. 2 The Everlasting Irony of the Community Wagner with Kierkegaard - Kundry's Laughter . - . and her Kiss - The Feminine versus Woman
• 2. 3 Interlude: The Feminine Excess
• 2. 4 Run, Isolde, Run The Cyberspace Tristan - The Morning After - It quacks, hoots, pants, and gasps - The Separated Flames - No More Running Notes Bibliography